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    Anyone solved Toshiba P100 Fan on/off issues every 15 seconds?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by vark, Jan 16, 2011.

  1. vark

    vark Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    been reading through the forum and many people mention the issues with the Fan in a P100 coming on full for 1-2 seconds then going off again, and cycling this every 15-20 seconds.

    Its very irritating. I have completely stripped down my P100-160 blown all the dust off and carefully cleaned it. However still does it.

    Anyone got the solution to this or are they just a bag of bolts ?

    In my mind its either a faulty thermal sensor or the fan picking up wrong information.

    I have a new fan on its way but if that does not solve it then I think I might get rid. Bit of a shame.

    Funnily enough if I run Prime95 and max out the cores 100% the fan does not do it. You can hear it on all the time but its very quiet and is actually quite bearable but I can't run 100% all the time.

    Its a pity there are no applications that can overide the fan control so you can set it a constant speed. I tried Speedfan but that does not identify the fan speed on the board just the CPU temp.
     
    vark, Jan 16, 2011
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    vark Notebook Enthusiast

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    anybody help on this one?
     
    vark, Jan 24, 2011
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    Might want to try to Toshiba Support site:

    Model Content Page

    At top of page, input your correct model number by selecting "Product Support" and following the drop downs.

    Good luck.
     
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    vark Notebook Enthusiast

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    Tried that already, complete waste of time, before thread got properly answered a moderator came along and locked the thread closed, even though the answer was not given. It was as though anyone talking about their rubbish ACPI implementation needs stopping sharpish.

    Since then through someone kindly checked the BIOS for me and we discovered a complete lack of thermal settings for the P100 so no wonder the fan goes crazy and does what it wants.

    Currently in process of testing a modded version and its going fairly well.
     
    vark, Jan 24, 2011
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